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Stat 5101 Lecture Notes - School of Statistics

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120 <strong>Stat</strong> <strong>5101</strong> (Geyer) Course <strong>Notes</strong>random variable taking values 0, 1, 2, .... If A is a bounded set and the pointprocess is boundedly finite, then the event N A = ∞ has probability zero.A point x is a fixed atom if P (N {x} > 0) > 0, that is, if there is positiveprobability <strong>of</strong> seeing a point at the particular location x in every random pattern.We are interested in point processes in which the locations <strong>of</strong> the points arecontinuous random variables, in which case the probability <strong>of</strong> seeing a point atany particular location is zero, so there are no fixed atoms.For a general spatial point process, the joint distribution <strong>of</strong> the variables N Afor various sets A is very complicated. There is one process for which it is notcomplicated. This is the Poisson process, which is a model for a “completelyrandom” pattern <strong>of</strong> points. One example <strong>of</strong> this process is given in Figure 4.1.Figure 4.1: A single realization <strong>of</strong> a homogeneous Poisson process.4.4.2 The Poisson ProcessA Poisson process is a spatial point process characterized by a simple independenceproperty.

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